[TravelMan]

CHENNAI: Last year, when Vigneshwaran (name changed), a final year BCom student at a popular Arts and Science College in the city, submitted his project work on the state of Banking sector equities in the stock market in the fifth semester, his Head of the Department was quite impressed with the clarity of research and decided to award him high marks. However, when the external examiner, who came for the mandatory Viva Voce, scrutinized his work, he found that a major portion of the material had been plagiarized from a popular financial website, which forced him to refer the project to higher officials.

Though Vigneshwaran escaped with a warning, he was forced to take up the project work as arrears in the last semester, jeopardizing his chances of getting campus placement.

Officials at the Madras University, as well as those in the individual colleges, now say that such incidents of plagiarism in project works have become so rampant among students that it was now threatening the very idea behind bringing the concept into the graduate studies.
Plagiarism plagues college projects
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